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VINEET AGARWAL, IP"S-

Dy Inspr Genl of Police

Dated:

CBI is presently investigaiing a criminal case registered vide RC RC . .DAI2009 A

0045 dated 21.10.2C09 ;J/s 120-8 of :PC read v ;:~h section 13(2) rtiv13\~)\j) (j~

Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988. The allegation b~ing investigated is relating to criminal conspiracy between certain public servants and private persons in grant of UAS Licences in the year 2001-08.

It has been reliably learnt that certain middlemen including one Ms. Nira Radia, of Mfs, Noesis Consultancy were actively involved in the above rnentionedvcrirninal conspirasy. It is understood that the office of Director Genera! of !r:vestigation, income Tax keeps information regarding such undesirable contact persons using various methods of surveillance lncludinq telephonic survefllance. In case your office is in possession of any information or records pertaininq to any middleman including Ms. Nira Radia regarding award of UAS licences, tilt same may please be made available to this. office for the purpose of investlqation

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F.No.: DGIT (Inv)/DBIINT/09-1 01

Date: 20[h November 2009

Attention is drawn to your D.O. No. 150 1 4iRC- DAI-2009-A-0045 dated 16-11-2009 addressed to Sbri Milap Jain, DGfT (Inv) Delhi seeking information on one Ms .. Nira Radia.

On the basis of specific information received from the CBDT; the telephone lines of Ms Nira Radia and some of her associates were put under observation after obtaining permission from the Home Secretary. Ms Nira Radia is chief of MIs Vaishnavi Corporate Consultants Pvt Ltd, Mis Noesis Strategic Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd., Mis Vitcorn and Mis Neucorn Consulting. These companies are involved in consulting in Telecom, Power. Aviation and Infrastructure. These entities not only manage the media but as per conversations, apparently try to influence policy changes and decisions of the various government departments to suit the commercial requirements of the.ir clients.

I. From conversations it appears that Ms Nira Radia might have had some role with regards to the award of Telecom licenses. In Il conversation she guides a new ielecom operator on the need to delay the inflow or funds from the overseas investor and not [Q give the impression to the government that there bas been any 'windfall' profit.

2. There are some direct conversations between Ms. Radia and Telecom Minister. In some other conversations M s Radia boasts to have helped some of the telecorn operators in their efforts to obtain licenses/spectrum. Ms Radia has also been in regular touch with Shri Chandolia,

If deemed necessary. you may depute an officer to collect the extract from the undersigned. Further, in case during the course of your investigation you come across ' information that may indicate violations of the provisions of the Indian income Tax Act 1961 by

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Sh ri Sudhir Chandra

Member (Inv)

Central Bourn of Oirect Taxes North Blo~k, New Delhi 110001

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Sub: lnfunn~tioll reluted to Unitedl gathered from Oata BlU~ . .t -n:g_

Telephone lines of Nira Radia, PR professional, and associates were plcl::ec: under interccpuc« after following laid down procedure. The information relating to the (]n:kch group as determined throuuh unalvsis or thee raw conversations is as under:

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'Sale of shares by Unitech in Databank/ Public Domain

i Bombay Joint Venture to liIings by Unitech

i Lehmann Bros Fund for Rs. 750

Remarks Thi~'i"f~;!tr;_l1che' t;tP.-~ 7':;U

CP"JrC:i was towards 50'~;o «:

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indicate a Capital Account I

adjustment and not offering the I

transaction as Income. i

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has taken bogus loan entries between two Entry Operators : through entry operators The entry and is suggestive. N0 speci fie i

operator. worried hy the then transaction is mentioned. .

recession wanted to reverse the Conversation ulso speaks of

loan entries some entries of software

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C(JIlCL'J"11 rt"gan.Jjll~ t W() 1l111rC tranches or muncy which was due I III ('PIIlt" Ihrouch I e-hnum Irorn "third purty" investors.

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Tata Realty of which outstanding to be projected as one for a

... of'Rs. 650 crisspokcn or. vague purpose though some 500 acre of land is talked about.

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mediating Telecom license for

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INTERNAL EVALUATION REPORT

FOR THE MONTH OF JUNE, 2009

The 9 lines kept under surveillance during the month belong to two separate groups. The first group relates to a Public Relation (PR) agency and comprises of 6 lines under interception for 120 days from zo" AUgust 2008 onwards. The group was again brought under interception vide order dated lllh May 2009 and the period of 180 days would be over on 10th July 2009. The conversation of the.jarget and associates indicate laundering and structured payoffs. transactions and liaison for projects of telecom and power. They also indicate cross border transactions related to Telecom, Petroleum and also media. With reference to corporate client of the target, after processing raw intelligence, actionable information of possible cross border transactions has been passed on to the field formation for further necessary action. As regards other clients. there are series of inputs mostly relating to third party. conversations contents whereof need some preliminary cross-verification before coming to a 'logical conclusion. A final impact analysis shall be submitted once the interception in this group is concluded.

The second group comprises 3 numbers. Calls in this group appear to relate to financial transactions ranging in crores including foreign bank accounts and unauthorized international derivative transactions. There are also some calls relating to cricket betting. These people also appeared to be involved in cross border transactions about which some information has been gathered. The information processed so far has already been passed on to the field formation for further action. No further extension is being sought in this case. Detailed impact analysis shall be submitted.

Director General of Income Tax (Investigation)

New Delhi

INTERNAL EVALUATION REPORt'

FOR THE MONTII OF .JULY 2009

rhl' !) lines under survcilluncc during the month belong (0 two separate groLlp~.

I. Tilt' first grllllp relates III a Public Relation (PR) :-sgcllcy .md comprixc.: or () lines under interception lor 120 days from zo" August 2008 onwards. The group wac; again brought under interception vide order dated 11'h May 2009 and the period of ISO days was over 011 10lh July 2()09. The conversation of the target and associates indicate that the target carries out liaison work for projects of telecom. petroleum, civil aviation ami power. They also indicate cross border transactions related to Telecom. Petroleum and also media. With reference to a corporate client of the target, after processing raw intelligence. actionable information of possible cross border transactions has been passed on to orr (lnv) Delhi lor further follow up action, As regards other clients, there are series of inputs mostly relating to third party conversations. Telephone conversations suggest that confidential documents and policy papers seem 10 reach the target. Conversations seem to hint that the target has either handled and facilitated cross border transfer of fundsor is in the know of the same.

The target as per telephone conversations along with associates has apparently fronted for someone to acquire a news channel in'India. There appear'to have been some cross border transactions in this acquisition. The target is also spreading business connections 10 Africa including investments in Guinea and Senegal.

Conversations of the target with a businessman who is also a government nominee on a state PSU appears to suggest that the target along. With the businessman is trying to facilitate the takeover of this PSU by a large cJierft of the target. A conversation also indicates a quid-pro-quo with respect to another PSU.

The target has, as per telephone conversations, facilitated for a fe~ filing of PILs by NGOs to hurt the business interests of the rivals of clients. There are some third-party conversations relating to other corporate entities which indicate manipulations in their books. These entities include clients of the target and also some of their rivals. The contents of these conversations are being processed.

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2. The second group comprises 3 (three) numbers. Calls in this group appear to relate to financial transactions including foreign bank accounts and unauthorized international derivative transactions. There are also some calls relating to betting in cricket and other sports .. These people also appeared to be involved in cross border transactions such as acquisition of assets through tax havens. Some of these proceeds have apparently come back into defunct Indian companies. This intelligence has been matched against information in the public domain. The information thus processe-d has

. already been passed on to DIT (Inv) Delhi formation for further action.

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Feport on News in Whispers in.Corridor

There is a whisper in Whispers in Corridors which states that "the uncrowned Maharaja of indian Telecom (implying Shri Sunil Mittal ) is banking on woman power (implying Neera Radia) to smoke the piece pipe with india's Telecom Minister A Raja in midst of a major global take over & his appetite for precious spec/rom ": (The Detailed whisper is given at Annexure 1)

This whisper can be better understood in the following context:

Telephone lines of Neera Radia and some of her associates have been put under observation. Neera Radia is chief of Vaishnavi Corporate Consultants Pvt Ltd, Noesis Consulting, Vitcom and Neucom Consulting (started in November 2008). Vitcom has been handling the business of NDTV Imagine while Neucomm was set up essentially for the purpose of handling the affairs of the Mukesh Ambani Group of industries. Vaishnavi handles the media affairs as well as 'environment management' for the Tata Group, Unitech, Star TV along with other corporate clients. While Noesis officially comprises of retired senior bureaucrats, it is controlled by Smt Radia and is involved in consulting in Telecom, Power, Aviation and Infrastructure. These entities not only manage the media but also allegedly ensure that policy changes and decisions of the various government departments suit the commercial requirements of their clients. The group also interferes in the appointment of ministers so as to dovetail the same to the commercial interests of their clients.

Intercepted Telephone conversations suggest that Neera Radia has had a role to play in the managing of policy changes at the highest level of government including those leading to the award of Telecom license to Unitech Wireless. the Telecom ann of the Unitech, Swan Telecom. Aircell and for various other telecom operators. Very often, telephone conversations seem to suggest, a large number of confidential documents and policy papers seem to reach Smt Radin. Further Vaishnavi through certain chartered accountant associates, who are entry operators, provide services for arrangement of adjustment entries and structured payoffs.

The following are some other inputs relating to telecom sector picked ':IP from the conversations:

I. Mrs Radia is a very close associate of Shri A. Raja, Telecom Minister and has been instrumental in getting licenses and spectrum to the following:

I. SwanTelecom

ii. Aircell

iii. Unitech Wireless

IV. Datacom.

a. Of the above Datacom setup by HFCL group along with Mr. Dhoot of Videocon is alleged to be having funding through the Mukesh Ambani group and an employee of Reliance, Manoj Modi who is constantly in touch with Mrs. Radin.

b. Swan on paper backed by a Mumbai based real estate company, Dynarnix Balwas group of companies was apparently through the efforts of Nira Radia favoured by Raja Minister for Telecom in allotment of license and also in the priority list of spectrum, in Delhi and Mumbai circle, as per the seniority list

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prepared by the Department of Telecom. UAE's telecom giant Emirates Telecommunications Corp (Ehtisalat) controls about 45% of Swan Telecom for up to $900 million,. This deal values Swan Telecom at $2 billion. At present Mauritius-based Delphi Investments Ltd holds 9.9% stake in Swan .. A 90.1% stake in Swan Telecom is owned by Tiger Trustees Pvt. Ltd, which in turn is 99.8 per cent owned by Dynamix Balwas Ltd which has allegedly received round tripped funds. The conversations seem to suggest that the minister Shri. A Raja and Mrs. Radia too have equity interest in Swan and her associates are to be put on the board .

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c. Unitech Wireless issues are covered separately below.

d. Aircell has as shall be explained seems to have some interest of the Tara Group.

2. There is a long conversation between Mr. Ratan Tata and Mrs. Radia which establishes that Mr. Tata wanted to prevent Dayanidhi Maran from becoming telecom Minister at any cost. Apparently, Tata indirectly controls equity in Aircel through Maxis Communication and Apollo. Mr. Tats felt the need to exit telecom (Tata Telecom or Aircell is not clear) in case Mr. Maran become Minister (telecom). .

3. Tata through Voltas is in touch with Neera and Ratnam, CA of Ammal wife of M Karunanidhi. They are apparently going to construct a building in Chennai on a land controlled by "Trill" with the Karunanidhi family as payoffDMK for keeping Maran out of Telecom.

4. On Mrs. Radia's & Kanbnozhi's behalf Barkha Dutt & Vir Sanghvi were negotiating for ministerial birth DMK members especially Raja with Congress members.

5. Airtel wanted Raja out and to take back spectrum provided. He terms ADAG group as Evil Empire.

6. Some close associates of Mrs. Radia in relation to this work are, (i) Tarun Das, (ii) Vir Singhvi & (iii) Sunil Arora lAS officer Rajsthan Cadre.

7. As mentioned earlier Mrs. Radia was very close to Ratnam, CA of Mrs. Karunanidhi (Ammal), Kanimozhi and off course Raja. She was to meet Raja in relation to their common investment in Swan Telecom and other matters.

8. Sunil Mitral of Bharti Airtel had been lobbying to prevent Raja from becoming Telecom Minister essentially for three reasons, first (i) GSM lobby aggrieved at the favor shown to CDMA lobby on spectrum, (ii) Mr. Mitral was lobbying for Dayanidhi Maran. (iii) there appears to be some irregularity in purchase of Vodafone's investment in Bharti Airtel this is being reported separateJy. Sunil Mittal contacted Mrs. Radia and wanted her to work for him on informal basis. Mrs. Radia said she would as long as there was no conflict of interest with TA TA '5. However, she would help him mend fences (for a fees with Telecom Minister Raja). There is a third person who apparently met Sunil Mittal at Sohail Seth's house who is acting as a link between Mr. Mittal and Mrs. Radia. (110537)

9. The same gentle man also spoke to Mr. Mukesh Ambani who expressed his reservation about Mrs. Neera Radia working for Mr. Mittal and so Mrs. Radin and this gentle man will do it on an informal basis.

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10. Apart from allegedly managing the telecom license for Unitech, Smt Radia has handled and facilitated cross border transfer of funds. Telenor has apparently purchased 60% of the equity for Rs. 6120/- crore thereby valuing the project at over Rs. 10,000 crore and the value of the license at over Rs. 4000 crore. This is far in excess of the market value of the telecom license and in the equity that is sought to be brought in within the next 12 months part of the round trip funds would make their way into India. Another conversation between Redia and Ajay Chandra suggest that the government is investigating the Telecom license issue has sought details of sale of interest in the telecom venture. The crux of the conversation is to stagger the inflow of funds and to give the impression to the government that the funds have only come into the telecom company and that here has not been any 'windfall' gain to the promoters of Unitech as such.

11. Tatas have given Rs. 250 croes to Unitech through Neera Radia

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Nirn Radia and Group

Telephone lines of Neera Radia and some of her associates have been put under observation after obtaining permission from the Home Ministry. Neera Radia is chief of Vaishnavi Corporate Consultants Pvt Ltd, Noesis Consulting. Vitcom and Neucom Consulting (started in November 2008). Neucomm was set up essentially for the purpose of handling the affairs of the Mukesh Ambani Group of industries. Vaishnavi handles the media affairs as well as 'environment management' for the Tata Group, Unitech, Star TV along with other corporate clients. While

--~l'l-"l~oesis officially compFi.se-s-N-re--tire-d--senior bmeaaeFats, it is eO''Fffi'A1+fLA---h'Io~i'nI'--*~tl-~+--''''----involved in consulting in Telecom, Power, Aviation and Infrastructure. These entities not only

manage the media but as per conversations apparently ensure that policy changes and decisions

of the various government departments suit the commercial requirements of their clients. The

group also interferes in the appointment of ministers so as to dovetail the same to the commercial

interests of their cl ients.

Telephone conversations made suggest that Neera Radia has had a role to play in the managing of policy changes at the highest level of governmeutincluding those leading to the award of Telecom license to Unitech Wireless, the Telecom ann of the Unitech and for various other te1ecom operators. Very often, telephone conversations seem to suggest, a large num ber of

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confidential documents and policy papers seem to reach Smt Radia. Further Vaishnavi through

certain chartered accountant associates, who are entry operators, provide services for arrangement of adjustment entries and structured payoffs.

With regards to the Tata group telephone conversations with regards to the Tata group suggests that the entire media and political environment management for the failed Singur project and the subsequent shifting to Gujrat were handled by Neera Radia and her associates. This included "managing" important CPT (M) leaders; (Neera apparently has: an independent very good relationship with certain left front and enu leaders).

Apart from allegedly managing the teJecom license for Unitech, telephone conversations seem to hint that Smt Radia has either handled and facilitated cross border transfer of funds or is in the

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know of the same. Lehmann brothers were supposed to invest three tranches in Unitech's Mumbai project. The first investment that was done was Rs. 740 crores towards 50% of Unitech's holdings in Shivalik Ventures Pvt ltd a 50-50 N SPY between Unitech and Rohan Devlopers Mumbai. The balance was to come in two tranches of around US$ 550 million. Analysis of a series of conversations reveal that of the investments to be routed into India through Lehman Brothers Real Estate Partners, investing "third party funds in real estate" at least a part comprised round tripped funds and when Lehmann brothers collapsed, only one tranche had come and the balance was stuck. Conversations suggest that part of the funds would be re-routed through the deal structured with the International partner in the sale of equity in the Unitech Telecom entity. The initial discussions appeared to be with Telecom Italia as well as Telenor while the deal was finally closed with Telenor of Norway.

Another conversation between Radia and Ajay Chandra of Unitechsuggest that the government is investigating the Telecom license issue and has sought details of sale of interest in the telecorn venture. The crux of the conversation is to stagger the inflow of funds and to give the impression to the government that the funds have only come into the telecorn company and that here has not been any 'windfall' gain to the promoters ofUnitech as such.

A series of conversation of the associates of Anil Bansal and R.S. Bansal associates of Radia also suggest that Unitech group, apart from others had taken accommodation entries to the tune of Rs. 200 to 300 crore under the guise of purchase of computer software from them apparently to take out cash and suppress income. Further the operators claim to have also provided loan entries so as to take out cash. The operators, nervous by the problems of Unitech and the fall of the stock markets were keen to reverse these loan entries to prevent any future recoveries from them or their entities.

Nira Radia and Jehangir Pocha have been in touch with Chhajlani from Nayi Dunia TIley wanted Nayi Dunia should Front for someone else who wants to control a News Channel in India which later as per conversation turns out to be News 9x taken over from Peter and lndran.i Mukherjee.

Her modus Operandi also involve giving favors to journalists through giving expensive gifts such as cars, and holidays. Some other conversations suggest:

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raIl! through VOJt:IS is in IOUl:h with Nccru and one 1{1I1,wllJ. C:\ III Ammn] wire of M Kurunuuidhi. They lin: uppurcntly going ttl construct a building in Chcnnai un a land controlled by "Trill" with the Kurunnnidhi family.

Mrs Rudia cluirns to be u very close associutc of Shri Ruju, Telecom Minister and claims 10 hHVC been instnunental in gcuing licenses to the following

a) Swan Telecom

b) Airccll

c) Unitech Wireless J) Datacom.

ur the ubove Dutucom is as per conversations. having funding through a Mukcsh Ambani group employee, Mano] Modi. Swan 1)11 paper backed hy a Mumbu] hased real estate company. Dynamix Balwas group of companies. There is a long conversation between Raton Tara and Mrs. Rndiu which establishes that Mr. Tata wanted to prevent Dayanidhi Maran from becoming telecorn Minister at any cost. Apparently, TATA , .. ""~ us per conversation, indirectly controls equity in A ired through Maxis Communication lind Apollo. ,"_'

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Apparently in Jharkhand, Tatas needed its lease all a mine to he extended. As per the conversation, former eM Madhu Koda had sought u payoff of Rs. I SO crores, Mrs. Radin has got the leose extension from the Governor of Jharkhund and apart from her success fee (amount not known) Ratan Tata has sanctioned Rs. 1 crore as reward for the Learn handling it.

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Mrs. Radia is spreading her business connections to Africa and there are lot of conversations in this regard. One such conversation talks about a mail' from Muthuraman and by Mr. Baijal, her associate for investment in Guinea and Senegal

through Global Minerals. .

Mrs. Radia appears to be instrumental in organizing certain institutional land in Rajasthan through her close associate Sunil Arora, an lAS Officer, former PS to eM, Rajasthan.

Unitech as per conversations holds TATA's Rs 250 crore which were organized by Mrs. Radia, Many cheques of Unitech for re-payment have bounced

As per a conversation, Sunil Mittal of Bharti A~e1 had been lobbying to prevent Raja from becoming Telecom Minister essentialJy for three reasons, first (i) GSM lobby aggrieved at the favor shown to CDMA lobby on spectrum, (ii) Mr. Mittal was lobbying for Dayanidhi Maran. Sunil Mittal1ater contacted Mrs. Radia and wanted her to work for him on informal basis. Mrs. Radia said she wou1d as long as there was no conflict of interest with TAT A '5. However, she would help him mend fences (for a fees with Telecom Minister Raja). There is a third person who apparently met Sunil Mittal at Sohail Seth's house who is acting as .a link between Mr. Mittal and Mrs.

Radia. (110537) ,

A call between Sunil Arom(IAS) and Mrs. Radia appears to be in relation to some income tax enquiry relating 10 land allotments in Rajasthan to NK Singh and other companies .

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Parimal Nathani, associate of Manoj Modi, of Mukesh Ambani group in conversation seems to be trying to implicate members of the ADAG for being responsible in the PIL filed against the RIL & RPL merger where certain people have been caught in a. string operation seeking money from RIL LO withdraw the PIL.

FlCCl Chief Tarun Das is Chairman of Haldia Petrochern (govt nominee) as per a conversation apparently Mr. Mukesh Ambani wants to take over Haldia Petro Chemicals and Mr. Das through Mrs. Radia is facilitating the same. Tarun Das got them to reopen the issue with CPM. Nirupam Sen of CPM set up a meeting with Prakash Karat. They fear that onePurnendu may create a problem and will have to be handled by Mukesh.

Retired lAS officer Pradeep Baijal, associate of Radia, in a conversation appears to be getting Reliance people on Pipeline regulatory agency.

There appears to be an inquiry involving 53,000 crores and asset stripping against RIL whose damage Mrs. Radia is attempting to contain

As per a conversation RIL has purchased house for VK Sibal Director General Hydrocarbons. There also appears to be .Enquiry by cve against 4 officers of. ReOM.

There is an attempL as per telephone conversations between Radin and Manoj Modi to get a special audit against Reliance Communication; apparently the books ofReJiance Communication are rigged.

There are telephone discussions of another matter relating to a RBI circular wherein some lapse of Reliance Industries Limited having been uncovered by RBI with regards to Bank Guarantees through SBI.

There are conversations relating to increased lobbying with Ministry Of Finance to ensure that the 7 year tax holiday available to exploration of Minerals Oil is also made available. to Reliance's Gas. It was sttttee that RS Shri-:-Bhitle-.h.'ld...q.uan1ifi~.dJlw. tax...imp.a.cLaLRs._40,OOO croTes Smt-Radia has been lobhying..in..th~BfIeefien-;"

There is a conversation to the effect] 50 crores media campaign is apparently being launched by Reliance Communications plus large sums of money are being disbursed by Reliance (ADAO) for environment management.

There is a conversation between Manoj Modi and Mrs. Radia regarding Mrs. Radia's organizing a Delhi based NGO to file PlL cases and other cases against the ADAG group. Earlier Mr. Modi claims to have used NGO of Ramjibhai Mavani (Rajkot). The NGO which Mrs. Radia has organized had earlier done the high profile DLF case. It is apparently controlled by three people, one of them is a close associate of Mrs. Radia, other is a Sardar from JNU, third being some person with lot of credibility. Daljit - her employee, Sunil Arora have helped in locating this NGO. Call No. 200611

There are numerous calls which establishes that Mukesh Arnbani controls News 9X through Mrs. Radai and Pocha. Call No. 202644 -

She is in the process of interfering in the appointment of Members of Pipeline

Regulatory Agencies along with Shree Pradip BaijaJ who works for her

There are calls relating to Mrs Radia lobbying on behalf of Mukesh Ambani in the current RIL ADAG Gas battle

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